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title: Then over them all was silence, Till a wonder came to pass; For all… — Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems · tree and pragmatics
description: Then over them all was silence, Till a wonder came to pass; For all the beasts, who, before Had spoken but one common language, Now talked in different tongues; Each with a tongue of his own Understood the others no more. Who acts: silence, tongue, others. A sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and oth
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# Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 65

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Then over them all was silence, Till a wonder came to pass; For all the beasts, who, before Had spoken but one common language, Now talked in different tongues; Each with a tongue of his own Understood the others no more.

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**Who acts:** silence, tongue, others · **What happens:** be, come, pass, speak, talk, understand · **To what, where:** silence, beasts, one common language, different tongues, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, tongue, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78673:13:65
# text = Then over them all was silence, Till a wonder came to pass; For all the beasts, who, before Had spoken but one common language, Now talked in different tongues; Each with a tongue of his own Understood the others no more.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	For	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	Had	Had	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
36	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nmod	_	_
43	Understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
46	no	no	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
47	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | all silence |  |  |  | a wonder *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | all silence |  |  |  | then | over sounds *= sound*; all beasts *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | to-infinitive | all silence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | all beasts |  |  |  | Had *nsubj:pass*; one common language *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **talk** | participle |  | one common language *not said here* |  | different tongues | now |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **understand** | past | each tongue of tongue's own |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **no** | present | the others | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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